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President's Council of Cornell Women

Three A&S assistant professors win research grants

Cornell Chronicle

Twelve Cornell assistant professors, including three from the College of Arts & Sciences, have been awarded research grants by the Affinito-Stewart Grants Program.The program, administered by the President’s Council of Cornell Women (PCCW), aims to increase the long-term retention of women on the Cornell faculty by supporting the completion of research important in the tenure process.

Chemistry & Chemical Biology

$1.3M NIH grant funds brain development, cancer research

Cornell Chronicle

Researchers will seek to uncover fundamental processes in brain development and their links to brain cancers with a new grant.

Interdisciplinary study

New University Courses tackle love, food justice

A&S Communications

If you’ve ever wondered about love (and who hasn’t?), there’s a new university course for you this year. And if you ponder the issue of food justice and how it relates to our tiny town of Ithaca, there’s one for that too.Those topics are two of the new ones covered this year through the University Courses Initiative, which was begun in 2012 and will offer 18 courses this year.

Music, Performing & Media Arts

CCA 2016 Biennial to focus on empathy

Cornell Chronicle

The Cornell Council for the Arts (CCA) 2016 Biennial, “Abject/Object Empathies,” will feature 12 new projects by invited artists, Cornell faculty members and students. Most of the works will be presented on campus between Sept. 15 and Dec. 22, all on the theme of the cultural production of empathy.

Religion

Professor explores contemporary and historic Islam

Arts & Sciences Communications

Islam has been much in the American news lately, but Chiara Formichi says the stereotypes media reinforce do us a disservice. “It’s important that we as faculty help students to break up assumptions and see that Islam is not just what is portrayed in the media,” she says. 

Orientation

Dean Ritter Welcomes the Class of 2020

A&S Communications

“Cornell’s story is America’s story, and we are in this great ‘unfinished symphony’ together."

Social Sciences

ISS project to study economics, politics of China urbanization

Cornell Chronicle

One in 10 people on Earth live in China’s cities. Over the past decade, nearly 200 million people in China have moved from rural to urban regions, and 8 million more are expected to relocate every year between now and 2050. Just what this means for China and the world has the attention of the Institute for the Social Sciences’ newest collaborative project, China’s Cities: Divisions and Plans.

Government

Meeting the world

Cornell Research

Peter J. Katzenstein, the Walter S. Carpenter Jr. Professor of International Studies, offers a look into his world of teaching and research in international relations in this video on the Cornell Research site.

Performing & media arts

The page, the screen, the stage

Cornell Research

In the short story “How to Win an Unwinnable War,” a seventh-grade boy named Sam enrolls in a summer school class called How to Win a Nuclear War. The story traces Sam’s morbid reflections spurred by the course—“He wonders what the stars will see the day the war begins, the whole planet brightening, then going gray like a dead bulb”—as he simultaneously grapples with the dissolution of his parent’s marriage.

Romance Studies

Where did the language of money come from?

Cornell Research

Everywhere we turn in modern Western society, we run into the influence of economics. Our worldview, and our very language, is colored by it. We worry that politicians can be bought and sold. We give credit to those who can afford a comfortable retirement. We debate the price of a free society as police clash with protestors.